18. Qur'an: LX, 12.

19. Salimi, op. cit., 347.

20. Al-Jannawani, al-Wad., 32; Shammakhi, Sharh Aqidat al-tawhid., 74.

21. There is for example K. al-istiqamah of Abu Said Ahmad b. Said al-Kadmi, and K. al-Takhsis of Ahmad b. Abdullah al-Kindi. There is hardly any work on Ibadhi doctrine, which did not discuss the subject in one way or another. The system is regarded as one of the main items of (tawhid) and Ibadhi authors who contributed to this field of study always dealt with.

22. Cf. my "Description of new Ibadhi Mss.," J.S.S., XV, I, 72-3.

23. Jitali Qawaid., 40; Salimi, Mashariq., 337-338.

24. Jitali, op. cit., 5; Shammakhi, op. cit., 64-65.

25. Aflah b Abd al-Wahhab, Ajwibah., 2-3

26. Amr b. Jumai, Aqidat al-tawhid., 72.

27. Jitali, Qawaid., 39; Salimi, op. cit., 337-338.

28. Abu Ammar, al-Mujaz., Ms. 191-97; Jitali, Sharh al-Nuniyah., II, 42.

29. Jitali, Qawaid., 39; Salimi, op. cit., 337-338.

30. Ibid., 64; Jitali, Qawaid., 5.

31. Loc. cit.; Sharh al-nuniyah., II, 3 ff.

32. Jitali, Qawaid., 5.

33. Qur'an: V, 82-85.

34. Qur'an: XVIII, 10.

35. Qur'an: XVIII, 13-14

36. Qur'an: X, 98.

37. Qur'an: VII, 120-122

38. Qur'an: XXXVI, 20-27

39. Qur'an: XL, 28

40. Qur'an: VII, 23. For more detail cf. Jitali, Sharh al-Nuniyah., II, 3-4.

41. Salimi, Mashariq., 343.

42. Qur'an: IX, 114; XI, 46; LX 4, 13.

43. Abu Dawud, Sunan, II, 523; Tirmidhi, Sunan., IX, 223; Ahmad b. Hanbal, Musnad, I, 430, 439, 440.

44. Cf. Guillaume A. The life of Muhammad., 1967, 606; Ibn Hisham, al-Sirah al-Nabawiyah., editor al-Saqqa and others, II, 524.

45. Al-Rabi b. Habib, Musnad., II, 92.

46. Al-Qutb, Sharh al-Nil., IX, 407.